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Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…
Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumes lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and particularly in these three great ordinances, viz. [brace] 1. hearing of the Word, 2. receiving the Lords Supper, 3. prayer / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the second of the seven volumns lately published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1653
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You will say, If you should have Christ to be crucified again before your eyes, if you should see the body of Christ hanging upon the Cross, and there behold him crucified, and hearing of him cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me; you would think if your hearts did not break for sin then, that they were desperately hard; know every time that thou hast come to receive the Sacrament, thou hast come to see such a sight and it is as great an aggravation of the hardness of thy heart if it hath not broken at this sight, as it would be if it should not break at that sight; We read in Gal. 3. 1. of Pauls speaking of the preaching of the Gospel, he saith that Christ was crucified before those that did hear the word: and foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you; he doth not mean that Christ was crucified in ⟨p. 248⟩Galatia, but that where the word was preached he was evidently set forth, and crucified among them; but now my brethren, the crucifying of Christ in the Word, is not such a real, evident and sensible setting forth of Christ crucified, as when he is set forth in this Sacrament, and tis that which works with more efficacy to break the heart than that other sight; and the reason that I give is this:
You will say, If you should haue Christ to be crucified again before your eyes, if you should see the body of Christ hanging upon the Cross, and there behold him crucified, and hearing of him cry out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me; you would think if your hearts did not break for sin then, that they were desperately hard; know every time that thou hast come to receive the Sacrament, thou hast come to see such a sight and it is as great an aggravation of the hardness of thy heart if it hath not broken at this sight, as it would be if it should not break at that sight; We reade in Gal. 3. 1. of Pauls speaking of the preaching of the Gospel, he saith that Christ was crucified before those that did hear the word: and foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you; he doth not mean that Christ was crucified in ⟨p. 248⟩